tcsh hangs after updating to cygwin 1.5.7-1. Expires with "Out of Memory"

[Boris Kirzner]

Michael Bax <bax3.NO <at> SPAM.bigfoot.com> writes:

> 
> I discovered that my .history file was 53 MB in size!  This is with
> 	history	1024
> 	savehist	(1024 merge)
> in my .login.
> 
> > wc .history
> 	0 3316299 53060768 .history
> 

I've got the same problem with the same symptoms (the only difference - I
connect to my cygwin with putty via sshd).
 
Removing/renaming .history file solves the problem.

Boris


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